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Taking aim: the PHGU
To keep abreast of developments in molecular and clinical genetics, and their ethical, legal, social and public health implications.
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REFERENCES
1 Genetics Research Advisory Group. A First Report to the NHS Central Research and Development Committee on the New Genetics. Department of Health, 1995.
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monitor
Monitor has been much struck of late by Joe McCrae's charming new persona. Whisper who dares, but sources (as we journos put it) suggest that Dobbo's formidable enforcer may have gone just a little bit native down in Whitehall. Perhaps he has been reading his job description. It is a ...
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'Astonished' MP pushes for cancer register
The government would regularly review NHS cancer care, and publish performance statistics for cancer centres - including survival rates - under a bill proposed by Labour backbencher Paul Marsden.
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in brief
The public sector ombudsman system is to be reviewed to examine the scope for a more 'joined-up' approach to dealing with complaints from the public, said Cabinet Office minister Jack Cunningham. It will consider whether current arrangements in England 'are in the best interests of complainants' and whether the service ...
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'Smart card' security bid
Ten hospitals are piloting a 'smart card' that would allow NHS employers to check the complete occupational health history and any police record of potential employees.
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Residential homes to get regulatory body
The Welsh Office has announced the launch of a regulatory body for nursing and residential homes in a white paper on the future of social services.
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Days like this
Clarke denies pre-empting legislation... Doctors dismiss extra consultant posts as 'sop'... White paper critics 'risk worse'...
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Closure plans: why are we waiting?
1991 Consultation on the original plans for two units to replace High Royds and Roundhay wing.
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Word on the wards: 'abysmal' and 'not acceptable'
John Oldham on 140-bed Roundhay wing: 'The conditions there are, in my view, abysmal.'